People Are Freaking Out Over the BBC's List of the Greatest Films of the 21st Century

There are countless lists on the Internet of the best films of the century, but so often, they are way too broad. How can you make such decisions when there are so many different genres and styles that are simply incomparable? The BBC recently tried to solve this issue by limited their list of greatest films simply to the last 16 years. They asked 177 film critics from every continent except Antartica to pick the most spectacular cinema since 2000.

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All in all, it's a pretty varied list, with lots of genres and even a healthy amount of nations represented. You've got films from the usual suspects (Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Steven Spielberg, and Quentin Tarantino), a good amount of female directors (Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty made the list), and even some animated favorites (would you expect to see Finding Dory on a list with more than one Lars Von Trier film?).

But the Internet was, by and large, not in agreement—especially about their number one choice: David Lynch's dreamy, erotic mind-fuck, Mulholland Drive.

Anyway, Mulholland Drive being voted "best film of the century so far" shows that critics are hardly exempt from foolishness either.

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